The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 31, 1927, Page 1

jm ‘the Bismarck hospital, was . F probably snow. Colder Tuesday. ‘ESTABLISHED 1878 HE BIS BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, bi dneckia S JANUARY 31, 1927 PRICE FIVE CENTS ec GIRL 1S LOCATED cal Hospital Thursday, Working in Mandan Home WILL REMAIN THERE Girl Found at St. Joveph’s Au- ditorizm Thursday Night —Taken to Hospital Believed-to have committed suicide, Alvina Treute, formar employe of “dis- covered” yesterday in a Mandan home, where she was working as a maid. Taken to the'Mandan hospital by petice Thursday night after she had been found in the auditorium of St. Joseph's school, Mandan, seeking shelter, Miss Treute gave her name as “Betty LeMay Saunders” and her address as Fargo. On Friday, however, she admitted to a doctor who was giving her medi- cal treatment, that she hed run away from a place where she was employed in Bismarck. She was silent con- cerning where she had worked. She told how, exhausted, penniless and without any luggage, she had stumbled into Mandan after a six- mile walk between the two towns and had finally decided to enter the Catholic school for rest and shelter. Shortly before 12 o'clock Thursday night H. Jess, night policeman, was called to the school by one of the Sisters and found the girl lying on the floor of the auditorium, Her Story She told him she was an orphan who had been bound out to work to some Fargo at the age of 12, just as long as pos- decided to run away, according to Jess. Acting on a tip Sunday morning, Bismarck hospital authorities investi- ated the “Saunders” case and found the girl to be Alvina Treute. She would give no reason for ‘having run away, authorities said. 87-YEAR-OLD CONNECTICUT | JURIST DIES} Simeon Eben Bi Baldwin Was Twice Governor of State, Former Chief Justice New Haven, Con Conn., Jan. 31— (AP) — Simeon Eben Baldwin, apne authority on international Ww, A at ps home = Sun- a} le was 87 years ol The eminent lawyer and jurist, former chief justice and governor of Connecticut, many years bef ne c port Led publicly oer « human: nee to die a natural death. id age,” he said, “was only natural deprecated efforts of Baruiclans to 4 ppolons, life when death impended IN MANDAN Alvina Treute, Who Left, Lo-. way to death,” nd he inert A Wet Day on Main Street Cities along the Ohio river haven’t lacked water recently. This pic- ture shows one of the Pen foods of Pomeroy, vba during the loods, ASSURANCE OF ‘ADEQUATE MILITARY PREPAREDNESS’ COUPLED TO WARNING . AGAINST MILITARISTIC GESTURES President Deplores Any Act. Which Could Be Construed , as Cabling For Competition Today’s Doings in Nation’s Capital } ; i ie | Congress meets at noon, in Armament Reports; Senate approaches vote on | Prosperous Condition of|] navy supply bill. House considers District, of Treasury Columbia legislation. Haugen seeks __ preferred status for his farm relief bill. Muscle Shoals bids contjnue before house, military com- mittee. Washington, An assurance preparedness” was coupled Saturday night by President Coolidge with a warning against militaristic gestures (P) ilitary | or acts Feading to competition in arm- ----- aments. Speaking before the semi-annual! business ‘meeting of the government, the president also reported a pros- perous condition of the treasury, but again witheld promise of early tax reduction’ pending a study he ducing ability of the new revenue S. D. SUPPORT law, Mr. Codlidgé mate to direct refer- to the struggle in congress ‘to override bis stand’ against immediate constraction of thrbe new cruisers,,or eB the proposal to increase the bud- get fignre forithe army, but he took Sthe occasion to, remind: congri that the question.of national defense is “WELLER. PLAN Senate There Gets Resolution Pledging State’s Part in 8-state Alliance always. given). “the. most serious} nhs in-my recommendations to Piette, 8. D. 31.—)—A_re- congress in the budget mes- een ena 3 poe solution which would pledge South “What we need, and alf that we|Dakota to aid in establishing an eight-state economic alliance create a single selling agency to regulate production and sale of staple farm products, which has the endorsement of Governor W. J. Bu- low, was introduced in the senate ral day by Senator Atkins of Washing- ton Spring: which would ally North uth Dakota, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, nesota, Kansas and Oklahoma in an organization to set and control the prices on the five need, for national protection is ade- ne quate preparedness,” he s: “Tam for adequate military preparedness. As commander-in-chief of the army and of the navy, the chief executive of this. nation has an emphatic re- lity for this phase of our “As a nation we are advocates: of peace. Not only should we refrain from any act which might con- strued as calling for competition in armament, but rather should we bend our every effort to climinate forever any such competition. We can not and should not divorce our own in- the ations: Syreie, Governor Bulow in bis inaugural ad- , is known as the Weller plan "was conceived by Charles L. Weller of Mitchell, 8. D. The Wellcr- plan is representative ernor today said: Believes Pili “I have studied the Mielier in directing to the channels of public welfare moneys which would other- physical cause or when the was bly ith' medical te “méereiful death” i= | the als saat a me te |hed reduced its public debt below the wise. be spent without reproductive jul Public Debt Much Reduced Pointigg. out that the government plan and I believe it is pratical. If it i adopted by eight or more of the a cultural states, it will force a fi return to the farme tion and other It, represents th of fdrm states on strictly business | '9,000,000,000 mark and new is more than $2,000,000,000 ahead of the debt retirement schedule, the president to enable the farmer to He was one a the founders a the American Bar association it 1878, declared the nation was probably in the most fortunate finadcial condi; tion of all the great nations of the} ™! world. ges may Brought Attention | become necessary in building the or- ganization, the i n makes a practi- But, from a financial stagdpoint thief | lone, he insisted, the United States}cal application of a correct theory must refrain “from. any gesture which| and I believe it will, work.” could possibly be construed as mili-| The resolution proposes that the taristic.” “midwest agricultural states join in the creation of a single agency “There, are in this nation people of ice associatio Sepeember, ea al Dae Ried Nationa! ise to a jatui It reovenen discussion § as he was ~ of the state supi who advocate policies which would lace.us in a militaristic attitude,” said. “There are others who guile themselves with a feeling of absolute safety and preach a doc- trine of extreme pacifism. Both of these are dangerous to our continued peace and prosperity. Mr. Coolidge lauded congress. for its “unwaveridg support” of the budget principles. He promised a “substantial surplus” for this year and “every hope for a surplys the xt year.” “It is too any ‘@ forecast whether or-not there can be a further per- manent reduction in taxes in the near future,” he added. “We are waiting ‘a test of the producing ability of the rere ie act on But what we ehould, and must do today is to keep a firm gtasp on our expendi- ture ma.” Cost of Government: Cut Megaileed and empowered by them- for the purpose of fi ulat- ing, need be, the acre: pro- Auttion of staple caw’ food prod- ucts and to designate, and, if need be, dictate farm direct the disposit' Ay and destination of all such crops entering into inter- state commerce produced within the borders of the states; that much of the marketing, especially of meat Products, may by on contracts made @ year in advance; that the manage- ment and personn le selling agency si through a delegate system by owner and occupants of: the tilled land itself, the voting rights and ued on page three.) (Monkeys Captured After Raiding Cafe San Francisco, Jan. 31-(#)—Two small monkeys at a beach zoo today seuiieavs it, before ae intment as an associate justice Us the ge in were denied all privileges following spree last night which ended in a raid on a cafe, Entering the restau’ | had closed, the pair st! aduel with eggs until a large supp! this am- munition was exhausted, when they ‘The executive called attention that} ‘in the ‘last six rs the costs of government we been cut near!; 000" and the total taxe: ped been sliced by about: $1,500, 000 annually, or wing of for each working day.. The cost. of bat iy eee \for me next) fiscal’ nteeged the room with flour. They he estimated * at © $3,572,000,000; then filled pitchers’ and spgar bow! sempend WHY, BAAN, § for this ile phions and Kad ees all the year. * lower vases on “This readjustment of ‘nance oes a policeman grrived. of she: avenrataner 4 ie large|"/ The pair defied the ‘officer arid il factor In the Be tenses rendered: only when their keeper ar- QD: page three.) rived with hacer 4 . it after it of idea® for farm relief expressed by | dress~on January 4, and the gov-/ ISSOUGHT FOR (COFFEY SAYS KILLING ws | Finally Breaks Down, Tells Truth About Murder — READY TO PAY PRICE Says He Slew Bigamous Wife With Baseball Bat’ and Hammer—No Quarrel Lancaster, Jan. 31.--A)—R. N. Orchard, district attorney of Grant county, said today that he is pre- of circuit court be convened to hear the case of William N. Coffey, who ately killed Mrs. Hattie Hales, his bigamous, wife, slugging her to death with a baseball bat and hammer as she lay asleep. yesterday made his third confession to Sheriff Lyall Wright, of Juneau county. He admitted that he killed the former La Crosse woman, who eloped with him to Winona, in Sep- tembef, 1926, to hide his bigemous marriage from his wife and children at Madison. Incidentally, he said, he converted to his use about $5,000 in securities which the woman possessed. Sends For Sheriff Wright Under a ceaseless fire of questions | put to him by officials of Grant and Juneau counties yesterday, Coffey trembled and wept'as he sat on a cot in the county jail here. With re sistance completely broken, he finally exclaimed: “Send for Sheriff Lyall Wright.” : The youthful | county, in whom Coffey had reposed his confidence, entered and knelt at | the cot while Coffey, with eyes closed, unfolded what he said was the true | story of the slaying. “I killed her deliberately; s no quarrel,” per. “I struck her first with the bat and / then with a hammer we used to pound | tent stakes. “She was asleep in our camp in Bratton’s woods. Ready to Pay Penalty was afraid this bigamous mar riage would get back to my family in dison. murdered her and am willing to the price.” Coffey was questioned in connec: tion with unsolved slayings in Iowa and Wisconsin, but he denied any knowledge of othey crimes, IS BLAMED ON BOOTLEGGERS Nebraska Authorities Now Government Informer ker, Strasburg, N. D., who was found badly beaten in a pasture near La Platte last Monday night and died Wednesday night without regain consciousness, was a government in. former, according to the latest the advanced in an effort to solve th mysterious attack. William P. Nolan, Sarpy county attorney, said he had received infor- mation indicating Walker was a gov- ernment informer and that he was the victim of the wrath of bootleg- gers, who recognized hith as an agent when he was searching for stills in Omaha's -south side. Elmer Thomas, deputy prohibition director for Nebraska, denied Walker was in the employ of the prohibi- tion department either as an agent or informer, but Nolan announced he had started a check of bootleggers and still operators in Omaha in an effort to solve the mystery. Rail Men 'to Talk Merger Over With State . Officials oes of the pre Proposed merger the Great ‘Northern, Northern and Burlington railroads | wete to, be discussed by Great Northern and Northern Pacific of- ficials Ad a Fare here today ee lie and mem- of the state railroad Koon gf toa for the confer- | ence were made last week at the request of the railroad men. PLAN SCHOLARSHIP AWARD New England.—The hoy and girl having the highest cholastic standing for four years of work in the New England high sehool wilt. each receive $50 through the generosity of Anton Ulijohn Post of the American Legion and the Auxilisry. ‘This is the fourth {Stace of the New England high school r that members of the graduating haye received-awards from the Legion and DELIBERATE, | Wisconsin Bond. Salesman, paring to ask that a special session | yesterday confessed that he deliber-| Coffey, a spent and broken man,| sheriff of Juneau! there. he said in a whis-| * WALKER KER DEATH! Believe,Strasburg Man Was. | Omaha, Jan, 31.—U)—-R, A. Wal- | Police Fou { | is keing questioned by police today in ! connection with the death of Mrs. WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS IS ASKED BY K00 Foreign Minister of Northern, Government Addresses Note to British Legation | | \ ! Peking, Jan, 31.—(#)—V. K. Well- ington Koo, foreign minister of the northern government, today address-! ed a note to the British legation | here protesting against the despateh- | ing of British forces to Shanghai | and asked that it be transmitted to | London in the hope that the British | government “would give necessary in jstructions for the immediate with awal of troops despatched to China nothing untoward may happen to mar the friendly relations of the two nations,” The foreign minister's note de-! clared the jespatch of additional} naval and military forces to China is contrary to. the it of the League of Nations covenant. It cannot be | over emphasized that the national | spirit of the Chinese people has been} | developed and the military movement; on the part of the British govern- ment is Mable to lead to serious mis- understundings.” | I 4 [the object of the expedition was | merely to protect the Shanghai inter- At the 16,000 (Ruled Out | Dr. Koo ‘further declared that if]! Today’s Program in Legislature Hcuse and senate meet at 2. Senate to consider cut on bounties paid for magpies, wolves and coyotes. House to argue proposal to repeal prdhibition clause of state constitution Committee cf whole to con- sider measure giving married women right to act as execu- tors on same basis as though they were single. Joint session at 3 o'clock in. i memory ‘of Rep. J. W. O'Neill of Renville county, who died Sunday. Diary Kept | By Peaches. Judge Decides He Can Decide | Case.on Basis of Actions : ! Detriag Marriage Courthouse White Plains, N. 31.) The diary kept by M s (Peaches) -Heenan Browning; to her marriage was ruled out! idence toduy by Justice Seeger. | national ‘settlement, such is unneces- sary, maintaining that the Chinese! authorities are capable of doing that, while the presence of a large number | of foreign troops in this area might! lead to unforeseen complications, e (Coltinued on page tures.) ST. PAUL WOMAN’ MURDERED;-MAN| IS QUESTIONED ind Nude and Bat- tered Body on Bed—Man Denies Part in Killing St. Paul, Jan, 31. (John Ushoff Elsie Merrill, whose nude and bat- tered body was found on the bed in her home this mgrning. Ushoff ad- mitted,“police said, that he had been living with the wothan for. the past five months, but denied any connec- tion with the erin Police, who answered a call for an ambulance, found the woman dead with her skull crushed and burns from her left knee up to the shoulder. They said the The diary was said by Browning's attorneys to have contained the names of several “boy friends” of the young! j, wife before the marriage. They were} to be used as character witnesses, it) was promised, should the dia been permitted us evidence Three letters, identified Wednesday | js Mrs. Browning us having been! written to girl fr: also were rul- ed out by Justi “I don’t think it will help me much,” he said, “to go into the liv of either of these persons before their marriage. I think I can decide this case on the busis of actions dur- ing the marriage.” The letters, counsel for Browning told the court, referred to “a poker party” attended, he said, by the young woman before she became the real estate man’s wife. Order is Modified * The justice later modified his or- der ‘slightly to allow “some of the evidence regarding Mrs. Browning's pre-marital life to be introduced, in order that it “might be on the ree- ord” and “as there is no jury to be influenced.” Justice Seeger said that he would halt the testimony when he thought it had gone fur enough. Miss Marion Tussey, who testified for Mrs, Browning last: week, was recalled to the stand as the~ first witness today and denied having told her landlord about improper actions on the part of Mrs, Browning. Margaret Lew, employed by Bondy Croner, the landlord, testified that i i ! Lieutenant Bernard and Petty Officer Bougault of the French navy (inset left and right), flew frem Paris | to and back from Madagascar, off the eastern c2ast of South Africa, a distance of 16,000 miles. blackened the banks of the Seine to greet them upon their return, as pictured Pere. Crowds HOUSE MEMBER DIES SUNDAY OF PNEUMONIA Joint Session Holds Memorial | Services Today For Rep. J. W. O'Neill of Norma Regs. L. L. Twichell and J. H. Burkh today joined in intro- ducing a bill appropriationg $500 to pay the medical and hospital bills of Rep. J. H. O'Neill, who died Sunday, and also to in part defray his funeral expenses. A resolution was unanimously adopted which permits M O'Neill to draw the pay of hi late husband for the Femainder of tha stssion, Memorial services for Rep. J. W. O'Neill, 61, who died of pneumonia j Sunday morning, were held this | afternoon at 3 o'clock at a joint session of the house and senate. Speeches eulogizing O'Neill, who was beginning his second term as representative frem Renville coun- ty, were given by friends, mem- bers of the legi Party dif- !ferences were || side as the as- Ppbiymen Joined in the memorial ic A committee consisting of Lieut. Gov. Walter Maddock, Senators G. 4WAR WITH MEXICO IN 2 YEARS PREDICTED mien’) SEN, WHEEL WHEELER OF MONTANA IS FORECASTER |Policies of Present Adminis- tration Must Be Changed to Avoid Hostilities |SPEAKS IN NEW YORK | Forcsees Lifting of Arms Em- bargo, Revolution, Overt Act and Then Warfare | | — Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, Jan. 31.—(4)—Dr. head of the liberal government here, in a statement to the Asso- ciated Press today declared that if the United Staten marines did not “suspend hostilities against the liberals” the time would come when the marines would “have to dpen fire against the liberals and kill hundreds of Nicaraguan citi- zens to support Diaz, as in 1912.” General Diaz heads the conserva- tive government at Managua, which has been recoguized by the United States. { | | | i] | New York, Jan. 31--(4)—War with Mexico “within two years” is pre- {dicted by United States Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Democrat, Mon- tana, unless policies of the present jadministration are changed. Senator Wheeler believes the dis- turbed situation in Central America is made more difficult by the temper- ament of Secretary of State Kellaen, who “sees a bolshevik under every, sagebrush between Washington and Mexico City.” General criticism of American pol- icy in Central America was voiced by the senator in an address under the auspices of the Non-Intervention Cit- committee here yesterday. ure hell-bent on the meanest kind of imperialistic policy,” he as- serted. predict, if the policy of this ad- ministration is pursued, there will be a war in two years,” he declared. Somebody Would Get Shot “I predict, unless public sentiment is aroused, that when congress is udiourned, Secretary Kellogg. will Windraw recognition from Mexico. The arms embargo will be. lifted. ak will be revolution, Marines ill be sent in to protect oil prop- erty. Somebody will get shot—there will be an overt act. Then we will be y’ Supreme Court Patterson and Jchn W. Benson and #t war with Mexico, and maybe with {Representatives J. ¢ J all Central and South America.” | Burkhart none shh ih Hil Senator Wheeler described the Nic- the | araguan conservative president, Adol- charge of arrangements for ill’s desk and chair in chamber were draped in have, black today, and several beautiful | " floral tributes were placed on the desk, The Program The program was planned as fellows: Vocal number ...Henry Halverson Prayer Father John Slag TalkJohn Carr, speaker of the -Rep. J. H. Burkhart Senator D. H. Hamilton Rep. L. L. Twichell | Senator J. W. Benson Motion ie Vocal number. aiatste-- Prayer, Henry Halverson | Father John Slag ution of joint session. A committee of pallbearers to} accompany the body to the train 1was to consist of Representatives J. W. Standley, H. F. Butt, J. H. | Burkhart, O. C. Twichell and G. Elken. Representative O'Neill, who died | at a local hospital yesterday morn- day. His home was on a farm near Norma. Born in Iowa He was born October 8, 1885, at] Ackley, Iowa, and was the son of j He lived John and Anna O'Neill. - Rep. Guy L, Elken | -Rep. H, F. Butt |~ nator G. Patterson | Anderson, L. L.| ing at 7:30, had been ill since Mon- | fo Diaz, as the “hand-pidked yes: man” of the state department, and said the Nicaraguan government was ‘sufety-pinned to power by the bayo- nets of United States marines.” “It is impossible to stand behind President. Coolidge in the crisis un- less one had St. Vitus dance,” he added. : FARM AID BILL TO BE ARGUED NEXT TUESDAY House Rules Committee | Reaches Agreement Provid- ing 12 Hours Debate Washington, Ja |leged legislative , stat Nary-Haugen farm Retiey iti was approved today by the house rules comnittee. A rule was voted to have it called j;up in the house probably Tuesday, Feb. 8, under an agreement providing jfor 12 hours general debate. The house must give its sanction to the rule before it becomes ef- fective. Chairman Haugen of the kitchen gave evidence that a terrific) Miss Tussey hus suid that Mrs. struggle had taken place. The walls! Browning had gone out with « “lot \ugricultural committee, co-author of were spattered with blood. Ushoff' said that stairig on his face, clothing and the inside of his cap were caused by catsup. He said that he had reached home shortly before one woman very sick. He called his land- ance. Neighbors said they had frequently heard 4 woman’s screams coming from the house.. Will Investigate ° Sale of Lumber in Washington, Jan. 31.—()—Investi- gation of the Herrick lumber conces- sion, ‘involving government lands in today by the senate. The inquiry wag approved by the public lands committee and will in- volve fraud in connection with the contract for more than eight hundred million feet of lumber in a national torest. The committee will begin work im- mediately, summoning a. number of officiale of the forest service now in Oregon and officials of Grant county. Tuesday. is conéidered an unlucky ny for ‘weddings in Spain, sem aan apace te: A report must be made to the senate by nest February a ange Seb o'clock this morning and found the! lord who telephoned for an ambul-| National Forest’ Grant county, Oregon, was ordered | g, granting by the forest service of aj of men.” She denied that Miss Tus-} (Continued on page three.) ———_—_—__——_—__—_——_ | .Weather Report | ae eEEEEeEEneEEEeeeeeneen 2 | Weather conditions ut North Da-; kote points for the 24 hours ending at 8 a. m. today. Temperature at 7 a. m. Highest yesterday | Lowest last night .. | Precipitation to 7 a. m. | Highest wind velocity | WEATHER FORECAST | | For Bismarck and vicinity: Un-! settled tonight and Tuesday with! 9) he, i: 12} | probably some snow. Colder Tues-| | day. For NOeth Dakota: Unsettled to- j night and Tuesday probably | eome snow, Colder west portion Tues- | lay. WEATHER CONDITIONS The pressure is high over the Mi: sissippi Valley and Plains States and a low pressure area has appeared on | the north Pacific coast. Tempere- tures are below zero again over the | western Canadian Providences, but | moderate temperatures prevail ites, Snow the weather’is generally fair. | ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Ofticial ia ee | i there until 1892, when he was mar- ied. In 1893, Mr. and Mrs. O’Neill | moved to a farm in Clay county, Towa, near Spencer, where they lived 9 years. In 1902 they came to North Dakota and settled on a farm near Norma, Renville coun- ty, where they have lived since. Mr. O'Neill is survived by his wife, three brothers, two sisters, three daughters and one son. Ten grandchildren also survive. The sisters are Mrs. Ed Fitz- gerald and Mrs. Hugh Flannery of Iowa Falls and the brothers are Michael, David and Patrick O'Neill, all of whom live in Clay county, Towa. 5 Children are Mrs. Martin Bird, {Mrs, Martin Bertelson, Mrs. Eldon |Beems and Glenn O'Neill, all of whom live in Renville county. Services will be held at Norma Thursday and interment will take place in the Rose Hill etery. Mr. O’Neill’s body will lie in state t the Webb Brothers chapel until 16 o'clock this evening. LOTS OF REINDEER Washington.—There are — 350,000 reindeer in Alaska now, according to bl Biological Survey. A. herd ‘of 250 animals was imported from 8i- the bill, will control one half of the time allotted for discussion while \the other half will be jointly di- vided between Representative As- well of Louisiana, ranking Demo- crat on the committee, and Repre- sentative Fort, Republican, New Jer- sey. The committee made no decision as to whether the Curtis-Aswell farm bill and the Crisp farm measure could be offered as substitutes for the McNary-Haugen proposal, leav- ing this point for the determination of the speaker. Chairman Snell of the committee said it was the consensus of opiinon that both the Curtis-Aswell bill and the Crisp bill could be offered as bsartings te He adds that he would press: for the consideration of the NcSary-Hiaugen bill early next week. HAMILTON CLUB DECLARES FARM RELIEF NEED URGENT Chicago, Jan. 31—@)—Declaring that the “need is urgent” for farm relief, the Hamilton club, the: largest Republican club west of New York, through its joint agriculture and political action committee, disclosed today that it has sent resolutions on agriculture to the president, viet 25 years ago and has increased: th, to that proportion. During the last few years reindeer-raising: come. important commercially, (